M+J Builders co-director Jessica Buckley’s claims that she is an Indigenous woman from the Bundaberg region in Queensland have recently been called into question, the NT Independent understands, which comes as the NT Indigenous Business Network suspended the company’s membership on Tuesday, but which it said was due only to the federal corruption charges against her husband and co-director Michael Buckley.

Mr Buckley was arrested on Friday as part of a joint AFP and National Anti-Corruption Commission investigation into the alleged rorting of $71 million in Department of Defence building procurement contracts.

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